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Diablo 4 Build

(S11) Kripp's Skele-Mage Mendeln Summoner

presentationNecromancer
End Game
Verified
Season 11
Updated on Dec 12, 2025
Dec 12, 2025

Build Overview

NEW in S11 - Ring of Mendeln BUFFED. This is a large portion of our damage so it is significant!

The Hand of Naz unique converts your extra minions into more Skeleton Mages, as well as giving them teleport and unstoppable. Focusing all your power into one skill allows you to hyper-stack it with multipliers!

Tricky mechanics:

  • Mendeln does damage based on YOUR weapon, not the source, so a Skeleton will proc for the same damage as a Golem!
  • "Mages Hit Twice" - does NOT work on Mendeln procs
  • Bone Prison dying counts as losing a minion for Kalan's Edict, giving you bonus summoning damage!

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Super strong leveling build
  • One of the best all-around builds start to finish, from level 1 to high tier Pit
  • Requires Unique gloves to play full build

Build Variants

Assigned Skills

Primary
1
1
Secondary
1
1
1
1
Book of the Dead
Skeletal Warriors
Skeletal Mages
Skeletal Golems

Aspect & Uniques

HelmHeir of Perdition
Chest armorShroud of False Death
GlovesThe Hand of Naz
PantsBlood Moon Breeches
BootsAspect of Occult Dominion
AmuletAspect of Reanimation
Ring 1Aspect of Grasping Veins
Ring 2Ring of Mendeln
WeaponAspect of Service and Sacrifice
OffhandEmpty

The Hand of Naz Masterworked for Skeleton Mage passives is needed for this build to outperform conventional minion Necro. Until you get one, just use all minions and play the whole army!

For endgame, you will want a chaos armor Hand of Naz in the BOOTS slot, and a chaos armor Ring of Mendeln in the GLOVES slot. This is because chaos armor pieces have higher stats than their regular counterpart. Making these changes also requires you to move Aspect of Occult Dominion on your Amulet and Aspect of Reanimation on your Ring.

Once you have the Chaotic Cooldowns Chaos Perk, ignore all cooldown reduction affixes.

Skill Tree

Available0 (0)
Spent59 (12)

Paragon Board

Golem Glyph and Board are good options early on. If you prefer a Golem focused setup, you may choose to keep the Golem Board over Frailty

Divine Gifts

Andariel
CorruptedEssence of Anguish
PurifiedEssence of Screams
Azmodan
CorruptedEssence of Hellfire
PurifiedEssence of Sin
Belial
CorruptedEssence of Shadows
PurifiedEssence of Lies
Duriel
CorruptedEssence of Squalor
PurifiedEssence of Pain

Mercenary

How it Plays

Required:

  • use Corpse Tendrils to group up larger packs of monsters in that spot
  • Bone Prison the pack of monsters
  • Soulrift on cooldown
  • Keep up Skeleton Priest at all times

Optional:

  • Blight high health enemies for 20% extra damage
  • spam Blight to help stagger bosses faster

How it Works

Ring of Mendeln damages a fairly small area around each minion's 6th auto attack. This makes stacking attack speed and minion count crucial to maximizing DPS.

Cursed Aura Aspect makes the build much easier to play. Use it instead of Heir of Perdition before you acquire one. After you get an Heir, you can use it in the chest slot until you acquire a Shroud of False Death for faster clearing.

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